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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
catwalk
noun
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▪ Cathy Gunn is going down the catwalk in cashmere and has selected Dawson International.
▪ Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video.
▪ Herded by a robed priest, other techs decamped from the catwalks.
▪ Rostov scanned the platform above for Alexei and saw him finally on the topmost section of the catwalk.
▪ The three headed along the catwalk, descended a rusty ladder on to the dunes of debris.
▪ The trick was to turn off the instant you stepped on to the catwalk.
▪ We sat down on the roof of the catwalk and let our legs dangle.
▪ Will Katrina make it on the catwalk?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
catwalk

catwalk \catwalk\ n.

  1. a narrow walkway projecting from a stage into the seating area of a theater; it is used, e. g. by models displaying clothes on it at a fashion show. Called also runway.

  2. a narrow walkway high in the air to allow workers access to parts of a structure otherwise difficult to reach. Catwalks are located, e.g. above a stage in a theater, between parts of a building, along the side of a bridge, on the outside of a railroad car, on the outside of a large storage tank, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
catwalk

1885, "long, narrow footway," from cat (n.) + walk (n.); in reference to such narrowness of passage one has to cross carefully, as a cat walks. Originally of ships and theatrical back-stages. Application to fashion show runways is by 1942.

Wiktionary
catwalk

n. 1 (context nautical English) an elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel 2 any similar elevated walkway 3 A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway 4 the business of making clothes for fashion shows.

WordNet
catwalk
  1. n. narrow platform; "models displayed clothes on a catwalk at the fashion show"

  2. narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge)

Wikipedia
Catwalk (TV series)

Catwalk is a Canadian musical drama series that ran for 49 episodes on the YTV network from 1992 until 1994. The series' first season aired in syndication in the United States, while the second season aired on MTV.

Catwalk (theater)

A catwalk is an elevated service platform from which many of the technical functions of a theater, such as lighting and sound, may be manipulated.

Catwalk (disambiguation)

Catwalk is an alternative term for a fashion runway.

Catwalk or The Catwalk may also refer to:

Catwalk (whaling)

A bridge allowing the gunner fast access to the gun on a whale catcher

First used on the Silva in 1926.

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Catwalk (Australian TV series)

Catwalk is a 1971 Australian TV series created by Tony Morphett. It was a spin-off of an episode of the TV series Dynasty.

Catwalk (1995 film)

Catwalk, a documentary covering life on the fashion runways, was filmed in 1993 by director Robert Leacock and premiered in 1995. The film followed models Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon, Kate Moss, and Carla Bruni as they jetted around London, Milan, Paris, and New York during Spring Fashion Week, including behind-the-scenes footage. The film was shot in black and white and color, and featured many top designers at work, like a young John Galliano, Justin Thomas, Karl Lagerfeld, and Gianni Versace four years before his death.

Catwalk (Soul'd Out song)

"Catwalk" is a song by Japanese hip-hop collective Soul'd Out, released as their 12th single on April 26, 2006. The cover art was drawn by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure author Hirohiko Araki. The single was moderately successful, reaching number 15 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Charts with 7 weeks in sales.

Usage examples of "catwalk".

On the roof of one of the center cars, a brakeman stood wide-legged on the flat catwalk.

Ramon Korbuscek, desperate to retrieve the device he had planted inside Euterpe, threw open the door to the missile silo and stepped out onto the catwalk.

A succession of nubile young models eager to parade in his furs on the Paris catwalks and also to give him solace had temporarily dulled the pain, but somehow Irena Dezov never left his mind.

Through the water streaming down the observation window, Tom got a blurred image of a wide concrete room full of catwalks and thick white pipes before the sub settled toward the horizontal and the window submerged once more.

Bright white overhead lights reflected on the water and illuminated the heavy machinery connected to the webwork of white pipes and catwalks.

Parker tied the ropes with slipknots to the railing waist-high beside the catwalk, then removed the metal weights from their wooden racks tied to the ropes.

Parker raced along the catwalk, kicking off the iron weights and yanking the slipknots on the ropes.

Leia could see the feeders--mostly of the nimbler races, like Chadra-Fan or Verpine, since mechanicals were out of the question under the circumstances--scrambling along the ropes and catwalks that stretched from bed to bed, or from the beds to the supply station, clinging amid its own luxuriant cascades of sweetberry to the cliff wall.

When he came to the door that gave access to the trusses, he unlocked it and ascended a metal staircase that let him out onto the catwalk that ran through the trusswork itself.

They had just lost their most vicious negotiator, my oldest and wiliest enemy in this business, who had toppled off a rusty catwalk into an intake pond, been sucked into a big pipe, shredded into easily digestible bits by rotating knives and processed into toxic sludge.

The wobbliness of the raised catwalk became a slick, slow yawing as the hull moved into and through the swells.

Beyond the bridge the Citadel jutted up in an overwhelming display of silvers and blacks-ramparts and turrets hung with banners, spans and iron-railed catwalks, bartizans and spires, jagged steep-sloping roofs and lush, verdant hanging gardens.

Peter made out the square bulks of covered cages below, dimly lit by incandescent bulbs at the same level as the catwalk.

Looking around, she was startled to see, one level above her, a group of small children being led along a catwalk by a trio of attentive caretakers in paint-smeared smocks.

Everyone who could pack themselves onto the catwalks was there when the sunlight suddenly forced its way past the clouds, throwing back the gloom, and the view outside the Mission appeared again.